U.S. Industrial Relations in Transition: Summary Report
U.S. Industrial Relations in Transition: Summary Report

Author: Thomas A. Kochan

Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press

Published: 2018-11-11

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9780353353664

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The Transformation of American Industrial Relations
The Transformation of American Industrial Relations

Author: Thomas A. Kochan

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1501731696

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Originally published in 1986, The Transformation of American Industrial Relations became an immediate classic, creating a new conceptual framework for understanding contemporary insutrial relations in the United States. In their introduction to the new edition, the authors assess the evolution of industrial relations and human resource practives, focusing particularly on the policy impoications of recent changes. They discuss the diverse forms of work restructuring in the American economy, the reasons why the diffusion of participatory work reorganization has been so modest, work practices among sophisticated nonunion employers, union membership declines, and public policy debates.

Understanding Work and Employment
Understanding Work and Employment

Author: Peter Ackers

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780199240661

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This collection analyses the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding.

Contingent Work
Contingent Work

Author: Kathleen Barker

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-06-30

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1501720864

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The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work—an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, and some self-employment and part-time or part-year work. This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation from the employment relations model that dominated most of this century's labor relations. It delineates essential features of contingent work from both the worker's and the organization's point of view. Articulating a variety of perspectives from various disciplines, the contributors examine the business forces driving contingent work and assess the consequences of working contingently for the individual, family, and community, taking into account issues of race, class, and gender. They ask how current labor and employment laws need to be rewritten to provide contingent workers with the same comprehensive protections offered to permanent employees. In the final chapter, the editors comment on the status of research on contingent work and chart future research directions.

U. S. Industrial Relations in Transition
U. S. Industrial Relations in Transition

Author: Thomas A. Kochan

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781332286256

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Excerpt from U. S. Industrial Relations in Transition: A Summary Report For the past three and one half years members of our research group have been engaged in a series of related research projects designed to: (1) update our understanding of current practices in industrial relations at the level of the firm, (2) assess and interpret the changes in practice that have been occurring over a number of years, and (3) reformulate industrial relations theory based on our empirical findings in ways that better explain the dynamics of the U.S. industrial relations system, A variety of interim publications have reported various aspects of our work and we are presently drafting a final book that draws together our findings and highlights their theoretical and policy implications (See the bibliography for a partial list of publications from the project). The purposes of this paper are to summarize the main conclusions of our research and contribute to the emerging debate over the causes, characteristics and future consequences of the rapid and widespread transformations occurring in the U.S. industrial relations system. The Strategic Choice Framework To understand those transformations requires going beyond a description of the recent visible changes in collective bargaining. Instead it it necessary to analyze the historic and dynamic evolution of industrial relations in both the union and nonunion sectors of the American economy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.